mr magoo

that's what i call makai a lot for some reason.

makai loves to be upright, or standing.

so i asked eddie to put together the jumperoo.

he lasts about 10 minutes which is great for a 2 1/2 month old.

i have to watch out for emi cause she likes to make him bounce.

i seriously love this picture.

maybe the reason i call him mr magoo.

he makes all sorts of funny faces but for some reason this is my favorite.

 calm as a clam.... or whatever that saying is

he also likes the ceiling fan

he gets to kicking his legs and waving his arms all around

i was trying to get him to smile.

he wasn't interested. 

he was staring at my camera strap, black and white with a little red.

camera dump

i have very few pictures on the camera

but i wanted to blog them before the are super old.

like these halloween pictures :)

ahh! this is a normal emi look i'm sad to say

she is not the sweet angel most people think she is.

she sports this ugly face anytime you ask her to do something

like sit against the wall to take a picture.

these next few pictures crack me up.

i remember thinking i need to re-take these when the lighting is better

how about i need to re-take them for a better smile

and maybe, just maybe no crying.

this was her best smile.

poor child has an under bite.

and makai, he was done before we even got started.

emi is like, get this crying baby off me

before i put him in a head lock!

luckily i remembered to bring my camera to get a picture 

of emi and her 'friends' :)

ethan, the one next to her is 2 months younger

and the twins are now 6...yes emi always hangs out with libby

kendra was huge pregnant with devyn last halloween.

team makai

he is seriously so white, vampire white.

my hair, hopefully blue eye'd baby.

if his hands aren't tucked away

he will usually raise them with each swing.

a little behind of putting laundry away...oops!

i love his cute little smiles when i change him

and can you see his crazy hair!!

i tried the comb over today.....didn't go so well.

all so random...sorry!

weekly update

can't believe another week flew by.

i am actually typing this up in the office while mr. light sleeper is sleeping!

in the same room...not stirring at all.

i might actually be able to get some thing done in the office

when he is napping in here after all :)

so i saw this little wiener dog hot dog slicer thing on pinterest

i didn't pin it. i don't have a 'i want that' board

anyways, i was at wally world and saw it in the check out line.

$3.98 later we had a hot dog slicer.

i think they will make the perfect white elephant x-mas gift

so later this week, i went and got 5 more. ha!

what normal child wants sauteed mushrooms for lunch

with a hot dog no less! gross!

i totally caught her red handed dipping her fingers in the ketchup.

mr. crazy wild hair, also has very thin hair

even though you wouldn't know it by looking at him

but at this angle you can see it.

i have a ton of pictures of emi like this.

so to me, he kind of sort of looks a little tiny bit like emi in this picture.

makai had his two month appt this past week

we were up and showered before 7am

which is perfect! since emi has been waking up at the butt crack of dawn

stupid, stupid time change.

the one nice thing, she asks to go to bed around 6:30

could be because it is pitch black outside or

she too is exhausted from waking up so early and refusing a nap.

anyways, emi insisted on getting all dressed up for the dr.'s

smoothie in hand and all.

funny thing was, we drove up and she took it all off

and wanted me to hold it in my purse. why? i don't get it.

i do know one thing, i looked all put together and organized.

when really i wanted to say, um we usually don't shower until 5pm :)

when the nurse commented that we were all showered and ready for our 8am appt. ha!

this is his normal face when watching emi.

taking it all in. almost confused.

that pile of laundry in the background sat there for 2 days

i'm trying to let things go. they went back into the dryer for some fluffing though.

it was the, he is sleeping...i'm gonna try to finish the laundry type deal

when i came upstairs he was wailing, crying for some attention.

he seriously sleeps through all sort of noises

dropping something off the counter, vacuuming right around him

but if he hears someones voice, he is like huh, what? what did i miss?!

emi is great at keeping busy in her room

but by the end of the day i can barely see her carpet

and she refuses to clean up, saying it will take a long time

i've tried talking about her playing with one thing and cleaning it up

for some reason she just doesn't get it....attention span is non existent.

like ohh, puzzles...a book! oh yeah my puzzles...my dolls look lonely

and then 20 minutes later her room looks like a tornado went through it.

so i had this bright idea when i emptied the last of the diapers 

how have we already gone through a huge costco box of diapers?!?...sheesh!

so we made a toy monster. she colored one side, i did the other.

when it came time to clean up she wanted the toy monster to eat her toys

so she could do a chore! say what!? shoot i'll just put you to work :)

but when it came down to it, as she was getting into bed

she couldn't do it, she and i cleaned up real quick.

it's kind of working, she has two toys in there...which have been in there all week

as if she doesn't even care about them.

this picture is dark and blurry but it is so cute of emi staring at makai

she is so in love with him

every morning she asks where her baby is. ha!

she loves that he is now smiling at her

i wonder how she will be when he starts laughing at her.

so close, yet so far!

he is trying so hard to suck his thumb.

after he eats he is constantly trying to get it in his mouth.

he totally rejects the binkie and usually gags from me trying to force it

i think once he has a little more hand control i might have a problem.

emi called me a name for the first time this week.

she called me stupid butt!

i tried soooo hard not to laugh out loud

and i turned away so she couldn't see my face

after i composed myself i made her sit in time out, right then and there

she was actually more upset i took her phone away

than actually being on time out. that isn't a sorry face you see.

that is a i'm so mad i'm sad face.

this week we went from 75 degree weather to low 50 degree weather

you would have thought it was freezing outside with how she was acting.

pushing a stroller and a lazy bike rider is more difficult than one would think.

emi doesn't know how to wear a beanie. 

she was insistent on wearing her beanie above her ears.

i'm glad she agreed to wear gloves, even though they really don't help  much.

full to the brim.

oh this crazy baby. very different from emi.

i'm trying really hard to accept that and be ok with it.

we have been going 5+ hours in between feedings all week

he is on one weird schedule. 

he has been eating around 4:30-5pm then going to sleep for the night

sleeping until 2-3am...which is awesome!!

but i wish he would go to sleep at like 10 and sleep until 7. one day.

one day it will happen :)

he then goes right back to sleep and wakes up at 4:30, like clock work.

if i don't bring him back into bed with me he is up for all day.

so off to bed we go :) where he sleeps until 7am.

emi the elephant.

that's all i have to say about that.

the rain finally arrived.

she was super adventurous and got wet!

i was shocked to check on her and she was standing in the rain

getting soaked! when she saw me she was like, i'm cold. duh!

i'm glad she had fun though. we have many rainy days ahead of us.

as we are going to momo and poppys for thanksgiving.

i better remember to pack her rain boots and umbrella.

he just melts my heart when he smiles.

he has taken a liking to patty cake.

he even laughs a tiny bit. not much but i think it's a laugh.

another early early morning.

this was between 7-8am. eddie was home.

so i said, hey! want to go outside? emi was so excited.

she literally was on this swing for a solid 20 minutes.

(*warning* boob talk!!)

i of course was bra-less :) your welcome for the visual. 

after running around in front of emi,

 pretending to stand there long enough for her to kick me...you know.

i realized the people we rent from could see me, they could be watching me! gasp!

they could have seen my bra-less boobs slapping me in the face as i ran around.

i promptly told emi we needed to go in. how embarrassing.

of course i have no clue if they actually saw me but i'm afraid they probably did.

emi was laughing her head off and was super loud.

um, hi....meet your new friends.

poor guy got a little scratch on his face

not deep, just a little welt type scratch...probably from my ring.

he liked it for all of 5 seconds.

or maybe he stopped liking it after emi gave him whiplash?

who knows. but he loves to be upright, so we dug it out of the closet.

don't judge me when he starts playing with emi's pink tea pot one.

makai was by far the cutest boy in church today.

that had got lots of attention when he was pulled up out of his car seat.

all sorts of loud whispers of awe's and look at him!

he sure is a cutie!

we are having family pictures done next week.

i think i'm gonna have to have him wear this cute little gpa sweater.

ahhh! family nap time today.

we went to a concert with some friends last night

and didn't hit the hay until close to midnight, if not after.

then mr. makai woke up at 2:45...then again at 4:30

i was ready for a nap. we laid down, emi is her bed.

but when i woke from my nap we were all together.

what a lovely sight. i love my little family.

weekly update

i thought for sure this would be a super long week

since eddie was gone from sunday morning to friday afternoon

luckily it went by pretty fast and without an hiccups.

makai ends up crying 9 times out of 10 when emi holds him

not sure why since she doesn't pinch or hit him

he use to make this 'get away from me' face

i'm happy to report that has been replaced with a smile every once in a while.

makai turned two months old

i have been weighing him on our kitchen scale

well, he was too heavy this time :)

since then he has had his dr. appt and is a heavy weight

he is 13 pounds 14 ounces, so probably 14 pounds by now

which is the 93% for weight. i don't think he looks chubby

especially when he has clothes on, the only thing that looks chubby is his chin.

he grew 2 inches and is up to 23 inches long.

along with makai growing at a rapid weight

meant he no longer fit in his halloween costume

which i feel awful about because momo made it

i even had her send me a new hat since the hat was too small

i thought for sure he would fit into the cocoon

good thing we don't live in the cold cause he hates hats.

we went trick or treating with some good friends

they planned to push their 9 month old in an umbrella stroller

well she ended up being carried, so emi took advantage

she made dave push her around to each house, it was hilarious.

thursday morning we headed to the library for story time

the one i take her too is for 3-5 year olds

there was a 2 year old and he was being noisy 

and emi kept turning around and saying shhhhh!

i was so embarrassed at how bossy and rude she was.

the library gave makai a picture book

and emi loves it, because she can point out each letter

and then says the picture, so she thinks she is 'reading'

tanner had his last football game

it was so exciting to see him play.

emi has a super sniffer. 

we had just sat down, what felt like a mile from the concession stand

she says: what's that smell?!

(she is seriously so sensitive to smell, right mom...ha!)

i didn't smell anything, but she says she smells popcorn

so off to the concession stand we go

sure enough, they had just started cooking kettle corn

they told us to come back in a little bit since they were just bagging it up

i was like, uh seriously...she is 3...we'll just wait.

emi's shoes look like boats, ha!

her foot is a size 9, so all of her shoes are 10-11 and look huge on her.

angel baby with crazy hair.

we had a rough week nursing.

i never had issues with emi, well at first i did but that is to be expected.

he just can't make up his mind

first he was over eating and throwing everything up

so he went on a diet, then he put himself on one

i was nursing every 3-4 hours and he would only eat 3-4 minutes on one side

instead of 6 on each side (diet).

obviously he is getting enough but i was still concerned!

after a chat with the dr. he thinks he is just snacking 

and i can go 5-6 hours, maybe even longer

instead of 3-4 hours, since he sleeps 6-9 hours a night.

so we have been doing 5 hours and sometimes he nurses just 5 minutes on one side

and other times it's 5 minutes on both sides. fun times!

my plan is to take pictures of makai each month in this chair.

but none of the shots far out worked, so who knows.

emi wanted to be my model.

she drives me crazy with her hair. she likes to un-do it.

even though she has messy bedhead, it was still in a ponytail

but she pulls pieces out and makes it messy.

and if it's in a braid she will un-do the braid as well.

this was right before he started screaming.

we are scheduled to take pictures in a few weeks

i can't wait to see how they turn out.

hopefully he will be a little more smiley by then.

he seriously looks huge to me in this picture with her.

how is that 3-6 month outfit so short on him already?!?

eddie made it home in one piece and we went to disney on ice the next day

we also went grocery shopping, since i didn't buy anything all week.

i also forgot to mention the three of us spent the night at gma and gpa's

to 'babysit' tanner...we had a fun night with tanner

amazing how much crap i needed to bring with me, just for a few hours.

two months old

two month already!

he doesn't have his 2 month appt. until next tuesday

so i will update his stats then. i tried weighing him on our kitchen scale

but it said 0-ld...with means overload, ha! too much weight.

makai had to go on his first diet.

a couple of weeks ago he started projectile vomiting

not across the room or anything, but with enough force

to throw everything he had in his tummy up.

at his one month appt. i had asked the dr. about it

because it had happened once or twice

i wasn't sure if i wasn't burping him enough

or if he had reflux or if he was over eating.

i tried all sorts of things and nothing seemed to work

and the throwing up was happening more frequently

and he wasn't acting like he was in pain, so i called the dr.

he said it is probably reflux cause babies pull off when full.

i explained that i thought it was overeating since he didn't act in pain

so the dr. suggested to limit his feeding...aka put him on a diet

that did the trick!

he takes less than 15 minutes to eat from start to finish

and sometimes eat just eats on one side and will cry if i try to force the other side.

he usually goes 6-8 hours during the night 

and goes 3-4 hours during the day, sometimes 5 hours.

my day starts at 4:30am when makai wakes up to eat.

he usually wakes up about 6:30am

i have tried many times to put him back to sleep (binkie)

but he can't seem to self soothe himself yet (something i plan to ask the dr. about)

so i usually just bring him into bed with me.

he is safely cupped in my arm

and will stay asleep until 8:30 or earlier depending on if emi wakes him up

he eats 'breakfast' around 8:30am

which works perfect for 9am church. too bad it changes in january.

then he is awake for about 30 minutes.

sometimes we do tummy time, or a bath or the swing.

then he "roars" and i know that means he is ready to go to sleep.

he is having a hard time falling asleep, like getting comfortable.

his favorite position is for me to hold him

and he tucks his face into my arm.

or i put him in the swing and he will fall asleep.

i've tried putting him asleep in the crib but he just cries and cries.

he will sleep until his next feeding, which is around 12:30pm

he stays awake again for a little bit, usually 30 minutes

then is ready to sleep again. 

makai will eat again between 4:30-5:30, depending on how long he sleeps

then he is awake for about an hour

doing either tummy time, play mat, bumbo, bouncer or is held

then takes a nap again

this nap he seems to be a light sleeper, any little noise will wake him up

and he often opens his eyes, then closes them...only to open them again

he then eats again between 8:30-10:30

also depending on how long he sleeps.

he then either goes right back to sleep or stays up for a bit.

i never know. but once he is asleep he is asleep for the night

then my day starts again around 4:30am.

makai has been wearing size 2 diapers for a few weeks now.

he also wears clothes that are size 3-6 months.

he is even almost too big for them as he fills them in 

and are the perfect length right now.

his feet fill up the entire foot portion 

he hates water on his face

and he really hates to have his nails cut

but most of all, he really really hates having his boogers sucked out.

makai is smiling more and more.

he smiles all the time for gma.

smiles a little bit at me, i think he looks at me as more of a food source

like quit staring at me and feed me woman!

emi claims he smiles at her, more like giving her dirty get away from me looks

there is no question when is he pooping.

he will fart all the time, and they are usually silent but deadly

but only poops every couple of days, to clean the system out :)

and you will know as he grunts and grunts

turns red in the face and smells of rotten pumpkin

-with acid poured on top (as gpa says)

he keeps trying to suck his thumb but can't get it in his mouth

maybe once he has the hand coordination it will happen

i am trying to push the binkie, as you can take away binkie

not a thumb :)

isn't a huge fan of the ergo baby

he refuses to bend his legs or sit in it like it's meant for

i was in a pickle the other day and had to use it

and it was super awkward as his face was even with mine.

he loves to stand and prefers that when he is awake.

trunk or treat

emi and gpa decorated a cookie together.

she just ate the frosting, then eventually jammed the whole cookie in.

what a good sport, eddie held makai and helped emi so i could take pictures.

momo knitted a football for makai but it was close to 80 degrees.

such a beautiful day but not good for warm halloween costumes.

this year it was a carnival theme

so they had lots of fun games.

funny story about this fishing board, the YM were in charge of it.

eddie works with the YM in our ward and they did this board.

he came home and showed me a picture the night they worked on it

i said, oh man! who did that big ugly one? right in the center?

eddie sheepishly goes: i did. I thought he was joking.

i couldn't help but laugh. i said shut up! who painted it.

he continued to say: i painted it.

insert foot in mouth! how could i retract my statement. i couldn't.

i'm still laughing about it.

i don't think she made a single "basket".

she even got inches from the hole and still didn't make it.

makai took a nap right after this.

i had a long sleeve shirt on and my arm was sweaty wet when i put him down.

people can't believe how big he has gotten. me either.

his car seat it getting heavy!

our sweet little strawberry.

i wanted to make shark teeth since we have a silver car.

but i never got to it, and eddie sat on the edge anyways.

maybe next year. 

emi told me i'm not allowed to eat any of her candy :)

when we got home she counted each piece.

i look forward to halloween night. 

but i sure hope we don't have to count each piece.

a rainy day

last week one day it rained.

it rained all night, so when emi woke up the next morning

she was so excited to splash around in the puddles.

i think it is funny the people we rent from

put those gloves up on the fence to dry out

way back in march or april and still haven't taken them down.

maybe they forgot and it's been so long they just don't notice anymore.

emi had fun running in circles from one puddle to the next.

we have such a nervous nelly on our hands

she didn't want to splash too big so she wouldn't get wet.

and in the end she asked to go inside cause she was afraid her hair would get wet.

this was about the time she told me she thought she needed to go inside.

i convinced her to jump one more time. 

silly girl. almost every day she has asked when it's going to rain again.

luckily winter and spring aren't too far off.